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An Open Letter to HTC
I signed up with Sprint a year ago and bought a Treo 700wx. It was a very nice phone. The Mogul got a lot of hype, however, and the specs looked good on paper so I paid full price for it and I couldn't even tolerate it three months. It was deathly slow. Even slower than T-Mobile's MDA. It constantly ran out of memory, DirectDraw had a serious flaw and not a single bluetooth device I owned, be it the keyboard, GPS unit or headset, would pair with the phone. Bluetooth has been a standard for what, 150 years? How could you possibly screw that up? But you did and by three months I hated that phone. I threw it away and bought, again at full price (thanks for nothing, Sprint), a Touch. It had plenty of memory and it was pretty snappy but, as is par for HTC, there was a serious flaw in DirectDraw that prevented video from playing at more than 1 frame per second, more or less. The same as with the Mogul. Windows Media Player didn't even work correctly. Seriously, how do you not notice that the main OS media player doesn't work? I wrote a letter complaining about how bad HTC's "multimedia phone" was at multimedia and received a questionaire about the problem which I promptly filled in and sent back. Nothing more was heard until I read that HTC was going to fix the bug. Several weeks later I read that the official "fix" from HTC was to buy the next phone.
HTC, that's the definition of the word "Bulls**t". I've owned HTC phones for years and every single one of them had at least one serious design flaw, be it hardware or software, that was never properly addressed. The Orange E-200, for example, that had the joystick nub that went bad after 3 or 4 months of use and cost well over $100 to repair. I'm sure you remember that. The part cost you what, $3? Or the T-Mobile MDA that was unbelievably slow and forced you to realign the screen 3, 4, 5 or more times a day. Even the second and third replacement sent by T-Mobile had the same problem. There's two more examples on top of the Mogul and Touch and I have several others I'm not going to waste time on. Well, HTC, I'm not buying the "bug fix" for the Touch which, in itself, was the "bug fix" for the Mogul. In fact, I'm not buying an HTC phone again. Instead, I've bought an iPhone. It could just as easily have been a new Blackberry or SonyEriccson but I went with the iPhone for the fun of it. Sure, it doesn't have all the features of Windows Mobile. Sure, it doesn't have all the applications available to Windows Mobile. Sure, it has it's share of problems and once again Apple and AT&T botched the launch. But you know what it does have that HTC phones do not? Of course you don't, it's SUPPORT. Two days after I bought the iPhone, I installed a bug fix that didn't affect my phone but I wanted to try the restore function of the phone. Two days! Bug fix! Do you know the maximum number of bug fixes I've ever had to apply to an HTC phone? I do: one. Because that's all that was made available, certainly not because it fixed all the bugs. That's actually laughable. It's obvious by now that HTC could not possibly care any less about it's customer base. In fact, I'd say HTC has amply demonstrated that it cares about nothing beyond it's bottom line. Keep pushing out flawed equipment to keep that money flowing in and the sheep will keep buying it. Well I'm not buying it any longer. Whatever replaces the Touch, multiply that by three and that's how much you won't be getting from me. Do the same for each new phone you push out the door that I also won't be buying. Three because I bought an iPhone to replace the Touch and later this week I'm also buying my wife and son iPhones to replace their Touches. Oh, I realize it's a drop in the bucket and I'm sure this will be met with all the usual half-witted, knee-jerk replies from your fanboyz, but that only matters if you care and I couldn't care less. Just like you, HTC. Enjoy. Goodbye HTC. |
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I guess we will all reach this level
of dissapointment one day. If it wasnt for all the rom chefs out there then we would all probally get iphones. I havent been an htc user for as long as you have but there are days that I am impressed and days that I am dissapointed with htc. |
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Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That's hardcore bro! I'll be honest though, I'm heavily debating switching to a blackberry right now!
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This is kind of funny considering that Apple's response to their customers asking for features like 3G, MMS and better application support was to buy a new phone.....
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I'm really starting to feel the same way my friend. My last try is going to be the Touch Pro (Raphael). If that doesn't cut it, then it's goodbye HTC! |
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Wow, it sounds like someone is a bit upset. What happened to your phone?
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hahaha bra, i SO feel ya.
htc mogul= def. FAIL. thats why im getting the 800w from palm. |
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As much as I hate HTC. I think I will have more issue with Iphone. first of all they don't offfer insurance, I go thought a new phone very other month (thanks, sprint). I already hate AT&T for not offer insurance already then the plan that they're offering with the Iphone not in a million that I will let go of my sero plan and switch over. Iphone still got no cut and paste? no video recording? and not a whole lot of cool programs out there. so, all and all no one is perfect for now I will just ganna deal with HTC craps. Someday my man someday when sprint offer the Iphone 5 I will switch over. for now, I will have to do with what I have the Touch. By the way, I love tomtom don't think Iphone offer that....do they?
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I totally agree with markg. I am tired of my Mogul but, I do like the custom roms you can flash to the thing but not enough to keep it. I like WM devices so, I am UPGRADING to the Treo 800w and the iPhone 3G. Like I said I like WM but not on the Mogul. I am on my third one. I want an iPhone simply because its cool. I have a MAC and a PC in my office at home and what doesnt work on the PC, always work on my MAC so I think I will have the best of both worlds in my pockets. LOL....=D>
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i feel ya bro, im not having a pull your hair out situation like a lot of people, but im gonna see how the touch pro turns out, if not, then im jumping to an omnia, or a xperia cuz i want to remain in windows mobile but leave HTC
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i agree about htc being a PITA some times but not everything is lost...until they go into bankrupt. i have been an htc user for over a year, my first was an apache and i loved it, now i got a titan and its really annoying sometimes, stupid drivers from htc ruined everything.
FYI: xperia is htc based, its just sony ericsson branded. |
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I agree with your letter Mark.
The issue seems to be the entire Windows OS / third party hardware vendor paradigm. Neither the hardware manufacturer HTC nor the OS provider MS have much control over each other and obviously there are gaps in between. The phone may have all this promised functionality but the code isn't there to put it to use. If it does arrive it's buggy or late to market. The thing that gets me is all of the inconsistency and incompatibility just in MS products alone. For example, a simple HTML email containing one URL sent from desktop Outlook gets trashed and displays incorrectly in pocket Outlook. Things like Hotmail's website don't work at all with pocket IE. Try going there. It tells you to go download Internet Explorer or Safari. If you go to gmail on your mobile it's aware that you're using a mobile browser and customizes your experience. The only people making my HTC Titan useable and tolerable are the ROM creators and third party software providers. [pt] |
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The letter is even understating the problems with HTC. I myself went through 4 moguls in a year. From the begining this phone stunk. I don't know where to start to mention all the problems with this phone. They should have not released it in the first place and put more memory when they decided to throw on WM6 in the first place. That itself shows lack of care to their customers. The main reason I think most of us stuck with it all this time is that there was nothing sprint had that was comparable to the features of the Mogul. I just got the Treo 800w and boy I feel like a battered wife who was in denial all this time. I used to think it was windows mobile and all phones with WM have these issues. WRONG! The treo actually works great and all the my simple expectation of having the device proform as advertised are satisfied.
Microsoft should pull HTC from making devices with their OS, they are giving them a bad name. |
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Doesn't htc make the palm w800 I know they made the 650 and 750.
Are you telling me that the w800 has the video driver right, and NO glitches? My guess is by the time you have it for a couple months, something will rear it's ugly head. The i-phone is a great piece of work, and I don't blame you for liking it, however, for me, I like having more options, even if that means everything isn't perfect, then so be it. And on that note, thank God for the ppcgeeks community, I would not be nearly as happy if it wasn't for the work done here and xda, that brings our phones to a more acceptable polished level. |
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While I DO understand why you'd be upset and discharging over such an issue, (especially the MONEY part), I just don't understand why the disdain.
If you've owned several smartphones before the Mogul OR Touch, I would think you'd be better at judging the tech specs to performance ratio. I really couldn't see this being thier fault in any way unless they somewhere posted an ad saying otherwise. And considering your staggering history with their previous phones, I would think you'd be more skeptical when buying thier product. I would not go into McDonald's anymore if every time I order a Bigmac it's missing something, didn't taste right or whatever. But I applaud you for finally making the move, I'm just wondering why it took so long. The media player thing, must be a bad egg issue. I have no problems with mine whatsoever. maybe I just purchased the golden egg? lol I really don't think switching to an apple iPhone is going to fix anything, or really to any phone for that matter. If the companies shot out perfect phones that had everything you want, then how would they get you to get a new one? that's just bad business in terms of profit. the iPhone is going to have problems as well, hopefully for your case, they are bareable issues, so you won't be caught switching carriers/phones constantly. While its a rational idea to get what you pay for, sadly, there are limits to these pipedreams, there are always going to be downfalls to every product. I honestly love my Mogul, but I can't wait to buy the Touch Pro when it comes out. Best of luck with your new phone though. :) |
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I have to agree with both of you. I've had my Touch since the second day it was available, and the only problems I've had have been self inflicted. But I also don't use my phone to watch video, either. Even with that, I still love my Touch and I have no plans to abandon it any time soon. |
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I think all that ranting is a little unfair to HTC. I have a Touch since a while and not a single problem. Like any other PDA/PPC device it needs time to be set up correctly.
I like what HTC has done with the Touch. |
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well sounds like you should of stopped at the first htc, not hating or making fun but honestly what was the point of posting this here. think maybe this should have been an iphone furom. going to have to say i have never experience any of these issues cause i have ppcgeeks.com for customer support for my htc... ;) sorry you guys feel this way, hope your new life goes well with your iphone. if not your always welcome back
(p.s. this is my first htc phone, and they just made a lifer out of me) |
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